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COVID-19 and Domestic Abuse: When Home is not the Safest Place

"All those who live in dysfunctional families in these times of self-isolation are at greater risk of violence because the additional stress, frustration and tension that the isolation brings can boost the dysfunctional patterns of behaviour among family members or abusive partners," Stoimenovska told BIRN.

"Thus a violent person can become even more violent".